“The Arab League was a British colonial creation to perpetuate despotic regimes in the context of the Cold War. The world has changed since then, and new Iraq could become a symbol of that change. Apart from a few thousand bureaucrats, nobody wants the Arab League.”

—  Amir Taheri

"A league of despots" http://nypost.com/2011/04/19/a-league-of-despots/, New York Post (April 19, 2011).
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